Re: AF Nurse Accession Bonus & BLS question Originally Posted by adammRN 
Yea that might be a problem, because I don't have 2500 to blow some damn clothes... this is really ******* me off.
Does living on base for NTP depend on what base you are at? I don't have a car and I don't have any money!
BTW Are OTS and COT the same thing?
Don't worry, you can apply for a Military Star card and use it to pay for your uniforms. I believe it might even be interest free for a year but I'm not positive. Look into it. There were so many people at COT that had to do this to buy their uniforms.
Like wtbcrna said, you can look around for deals, just start looking now.
The mess dress really is a waste. If you go to COT during "summer surge" they don't make you buy it. The large summer groups often don't have dining-outs, we had a dining-in. It was 300+ COT students and a small number of guests in a hot hangar. We wore ABUs and drank beer out of kegs. It was about as far from needing mess dress as one could be. I'm hoping that I can hold out and perhaps maybe dodge ever having to buy it.
At COT I bought the bare minimum (3 ABU sets, two sets of blues, PT gear, and all the accoutrements necessary). I think I spent approx $1000 on uniforms. Two years later I've barely bought anything to add except for a few blues shirts and a blues jacket. Since I only wear my ABUs for about 3 hours a week total, I doubt I will ever buy any more. I'm holding out for deployment to get myself an issued ABU coat
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